Re: ANNOUNCE: act_as_soft_deletable - new rails plugin for soft deleting / disabling ActiveRecord models

Sounds neat!

On the archival angle, something I have been wishing for for a while
now is an archival plugin/system that does the following:

1) Tiered time-based (or, really, on any column, I just can't think
for a use for anything other than created/updated_at columns)
backups.  For example,  move everything over 6 months old to another
table, move everything over a year old to a secondary database.
2) Multiple data stores (multiple DBs, file stores, ???) for
flexibility.
3) The ability to daemonize and run it external to the running web
framework itself (like a cron job) so its transparent to the users of
the system), and the ability to do on-demand archiving in-framework
4) Adds in archival find methods to AR objects marked as archivable,
adds in individual archive/unarchive commands, etc.
5) Updating records in the archives should move them back to the main
table automagically (this could be configurable)

I have programmed multiple order processing systems, and every time I
have yearned for such a thing.  Unfortunately, I am really not good
enough with the guts of RoR to pull this off :(.

On Jun 2, 5:44 pm, "Walter McGinnis" <walter.mcgin...@...>
wrote:
> Great.  Good to know.  I plan to use it on a join model, actually.  A
> related links type thing.  Will let you know.
> Cheers,
> Walter
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Shngn <hartfo...@...> wrote:
>
> > Walter,
> > Yeah, I'm going to keep the name. I was considering acts_as_archivable
> > but that's already taken by another plugin which does something
> > completely different ;)
>
> > I'd love to hear any ideas or feedback you have once you start using
> > it!
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